I think the main problem with my clinic wasn't apathy, it was incompetence. As in "they didn't have anyone trained". I mean, it doesn't justify them saying I wasn't sick and to go home and keep living my life. But it wasn't until Obamacare finally kicked in that they even had the resources to help me.Thanks Obama

I'm mostly feeling optimistic because I finally know what I have, I can look up how other people with similar diagnoses cope.

Well, they got a name and a face. Suddenly the "enemy" was tangible and haters had a target to focus all their irrational hatred.

I don't really claim to understand these people. Maybe they read tea leaves or the fifteenth moon of Jupiter spun the right way and that's why they targeted this couple. Makes as much sense as racism, anyway.

if you ever feel like spiders are fearless, unstoppable death machines that are bent upon your destruction please remember that my tarantula has been sitting, inconsolable, with her knees tucked around her face for the past 20 minutes solely because she stepped on her own foot

According to the article, he pretended to be a strawman woman-hating gamergater who made elaborate death threats on video. Unfortunately, this isn't obvious as satire when the people who he's making fun of actually do these things.

I was honestly expecting another Schrodinger's asshole, who declares they were "just joking" as a get out of jail free card. This guy apparently is actually an "extreme comedian" who actually made elaborate satire about fucked up things.